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Pyramidal Orchid / anacamptis pyramidal. Barnack Hills and Hollows, Cambridgeshire. 04/07/21.
'TRI-COLOURED BEAUTY.'
This tri-coloured Pyramidal Orchid caught my eye by standing out among the profusion of other orchids/wildflowers on site. Only 12cm tall and in near pristine condition, an absolute beauty!
BEST VIEWED LARGE.
View from the terrace at Mohammed Ali mosque, looking west over the Nile to the Giza Pyramids. The swirls of pigeons grace the skylines of Cairo at every turn.
FRONT PAGE EXPLORE 24 JUL 2010 !
I really miss you my friends, I just came back to my country yesterday, i was in Egypt and it's very interesting country
I'm sorry because i'm still a little busy but I will try to catch-up in the coming days
Regards my sweet Friends :)
Cairo, Egypt
Found at the main gate of Belvedere Palace, Vienna.
Six such pyramids adorn either side of the gate of Schloß Belvedere - twelve in all. A sacred number, and the pyramids are surely also no coincidence. Masons trace their origins and traditions back to the pyramid-builders of ancient Egypt.
Lighting courtesy of the Sun. (:-)
SMC Pentax-FA 85mm f:2.8 Soft, shot at f:16. (From about f:8 the lens becomes reasonably sharp and loses its soft glow.)
All processing, with the exception of final cropping and compression, was done using tools provided in the camera.
PENTAX K-1
Cirque Pyramid
The geometry of shapes. Surreal pyramid with suspended spheres.
Created on iPad with SuperImpose, Mextures, Glaze and Snapseed.
'Spheres' compliments of itKuPiLLi at Mischief Circus.
'Moon Face' compliments of Graphics Fairy.
For Handheld Art February 2019 contest “Geometrics”.
www.flickr.com/groups/handheldart/discuss/721576759750407...
[aus der Wikipedia]:
Die Transamerica Pyramid ist ein Wahrzeichen von San Francisco. Mit 260 Metern Höhe und 48 Stockwerken mit Verkaufs- und Büroräumen war sie bis 2018, zur Fertigstellung des Salesforce Towers, das höchste Gebäude San Franciscos. Die Bauarbeiten an dem Gebäude begannen 1969 und wurden 1972 beendet. Das Hochhaus diente lange Zeit als Hauptsitz der Transamerica Corporation, die den Bau in Auftrag gab. Der Architekt des Gebäudes ist William Pereira. Außer der Lobby im Erdgeschoss ist das Gebäude für die Öffentlichkeit nicht zugänglich.
The flower crop is spectacular this year isn't it - that goes for wild orchids as well as everything else. These are pyramidal orchids taken at Chafford Gorges nature park.
Pyramidal Orchid / anacamptis pyramidalis. Barnack Hills and Hollows, Cambridgeshire. 21/06/17.
'SOME BLASTS FROM THE PAST.' (8)
An image of a small, beautifully formed Pyramidal Orchid from two summers ago.
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This orchid has bright, conspicuous colouring and a very distinct pyramidal shaped flower spike during its early development. Although the flower spike can lose it's compact appearance with age, I still think POs are one of our easier wild orchids to identify.
Comesperma ericinum
Known as Matchheads, Pyramid Flower, Pink Matchheads or Heath Milkwort. I like Pyramid Flower in this case :)
Fra Sassopiatto e Sassolungo, rifugio Toni Demez, agosto 2020
Buona giornata :)
#sassolungo #sassopiatto #sella #passo #pordoi #nuvole #clouds #pyramid #piramide #ombra #luce #light #shadow #dolomiti #dolomites
Pyramid island is in the Pyramid Lake at the foot of Pyramid mountain in Jasper National Park, Alberta.
Pyramid lake, Jasper national park, Alberta, Canada. A truly majestic spot for an early morning shoot
The Egyptian pyramids are ancient masonry structures located in Egypt. Most were built as tombs for the country's pharaohs and their consorts during the Old and Middle Kingdom periods.
The most famous Egyptian pyramids are those found at Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo. Several of the Giza pyramids are counted among the largest structures ever built. The Pyramid of Khufu is the largest Egyptian pyramid. It is the only one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World still in existence.*
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_pyramids
Egypt tombs suggest pyramids not built by slaves.
CAIRO (Reuters) - New tombs found in Giza support the view that the Great Pyramids were built by free workers and not slaves, as widely believed, Egypt's chief archaeologist said on Sunday.
Films and media have long depicted slaves toiling away in the desert to build the mammoth pyramids only to meet a miserable death at the end of their efforts.
"These tombs were built beside the king's pyramid, which indicates that these people were not by any means slaves," Zahi Hawass, the chief archaeologist heading the Egyptian excavation team, said in a statement.
"If they were slaves, they would not have been able to build their tombs beside their king's."
He said the collection of workers' tombs, some of which were found in the 1990s, were among the most significant finds in the 20th and 21st centuries. They belonged to workers who built the pyramids of Khufu and Khafre.
Hawass had earlier found graffiti on the walls from workers calling themselves "friends of Khufu" -- another sign that they were not slaves.
The tombs, on the Giza plateau on the western edge of Cairo, are 4,510 years old and lie at the entrance of a one-km (half mile)-long necropolis.
Hawass said evidence had been found showing that farmers in the Delta and Upper Egypt had sent 21 buffalo and 23 sheep to the plateau every day to feed the builders, believed to number around 10,000 -- or about a tenth of Greek historian Herodotus's estimate of 100,000.
These farmers were exempted from paying taxes to the government of ancient Egypt -- evidence that he said underscored the fact they were participating in a national project.
The first discovery of workers' tombs in 1990 came about accidentally when a horse stumbled on a brick structure 10 meters (yards) away from the burial area.
(Writing by Marwa Awad; Editing by Alison Williams and Michael Roddy)